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In Effigiem Nicholai Culpeper Equitis.
Cross fecit in Aquafort.
Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall [n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper brown staining.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physician: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 65958] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Cross fecit in Aquafort.
Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall [n.d. 1649]
Engraving. Sheet 145 x 100mm (5¾ x 4"). Trimmed to printed border, laid on album paper brown staining.
Half-length portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. Amongst his publications were: 'The English Physician: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation', renamed in later editions as the 'The Complete Herbal'.
W: 727-1.
[Ref: 65958] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
James Ferguson F:R:S:
John Townsend pinx.t.
Publish'd Dec.r 7th 1776. Printed for Rob.t Stewart Engraver & modeller of portraits in wax No 15 Millman Streets, Bedford Row, Holborn.
Scarce mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration. Thread margins.
A half-length portrait of Scottish astronomer and instrument maker James Ferguson (1710-76), hand resting on a celestial globe. Apart from three months at a grammar school Ferguson was self-taught. His 'Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles' was first published in 1756 and was still being published in 1811.
CD: 5, W. 965-3. See 6167 for proof before title. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome: 965-3
[Ref: 65645] £390.00
John Townsend pinx.t.
Publish'd Dec.r 7th 1776. Printed for Rob.t Stewart Engraver & modeller of portraits in wax No 15 Millman Streets, Bedford Row, Holborn.
Scarce mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Trimmed to plate, some restoration. Thread margins.
A half-length portrait of Scottish astronomer and instrument maker James Ferguson (1710-76), hand resting on a celestial globe. Apart from three months at a grammar school Ferguson was self-taught. His 'Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles' was first published in 1756 and was still being published in 1811.
CD: 5, W. 965-3. See 6167 for proof before title. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome: 965-3
[Ref: 65645] £390.00
John Fothergill. M.D: F.R.S: S.A.~
Painted by G. Stuart Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd June 1st, 1781. by G. Stuart and V. Green No. 29_Newman Stret, Oxford Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (15 x 9¾"), with large margins. Restoration in bottom right margin.
A half-length portrait of Quaker Dr John Fothergill FRS (1712-80), leafing through a botanical book. Fothergill was a physician, plant collector and philanthropist based in London. A great friend of Benjamin Franklin, he helped to advance the interests of the Pennsylvania Hospital in England. In 1762 he sent anatomical drawings and anatomical casts of a pregnant woman to the hospital, which were greatly admired by medical students and the public, in addition to donating the first book to the hospital library. Franklin said of him: 'I can hardly concieve that a better man ever existed'. After Gabriel Stuart.
Whitman 108 ii; CS 45 ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome: 1016-1
[Ref: 65646] £390.00
Painted by G. Stuart Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty and to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd June 1st, 1781. by G. Stuart and V. Green No. 29_Newman Stret, Oxford Street.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (15 x 9¾"), with large margins. Restoration in bottom right margin.
A half-length portrait of Quaker Dr John Fothergill FRS (1712-80), leafing through a botanical book. Fothergill was a physician, plant collector and philanthropist based in London. A great friend of Benjamin Franklin, he helped to advance the interests of the Pennsylvania Hospital in England. In 1762 he sent anatomical drawings and anatomical casts of a pregnant woman to the hospital, which were greatly admired by medical students and the public, in addition to donating the first book to the hospital library. Franklin said of him: 'I can hardly concieve that a better man ever existed'. After Gabriel Stuart.
Whitman 108 ii; CS 45 ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Wellcome: 1016-1
[Ref: 65646] £390.00
Busick Hardwood, MD. FRS. & SA. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge.
S. Harding delin. Engraved by J. Jones Engraver Extraordinary to His R.H. the Prince of Wales, & Principal Engraver to His R.H. the Duke of York.
Published as the Act directs, Dec.r 3, 1791, by S. Harding, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, tears in edges. Small margins on 3 sides.
Three-quarter portrait of Sir Busick Harwood (c.1745-1814) the English physician and anatomist who became Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, wearing a decorated gown. He was educated as an apothecary, but passed as a surgeon and travelled to India, where he cured a nabob who was wounded in the eye. He returned to England where he was knighted and appointed professor of anatomy. His right hand is holding an anatomical model.
CS 34, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65980] £320.00
S. Harding delin. Engraved by J. Jones Engraver Extraordinary to His R.H. the Prince of Wales, & Principal Engraver to His R.H. the Duke of York.
Published as the Act directs, Dec.r 3, 1791, by S. Harding, Fleet Street, London.
Mezzotint. 510 x 360mm (20 x 14¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom, tears in edges. Small margins on 3 sides.
Three-quarter portrait of Sir Busick Harwood (c.1745-1814) the English physician and anatomist who became Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, wearing a decorated gown. He was educated as an apothecary, but passed as a surgeon and travelled to India, where he cured a nabob who was wounded in the eye. He returned to England where he was knighted and appointed professor of anatomy. His right hand is holding an anatomical model.
CS 34, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65980] £320.00
M.r Thomas Mudge. Painted by M,,r Dance for His Excewllency Count Bruhl.
Cha,,s Townley fecit 1772.
Scarce mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Half length portrait in oval of horologist Thomas Mudge (1715-94), wearing a short wig, waistcoat and jacket. Mudge's invention of the lever escapement was the greatest single improvement ever applied to pocket watches.
CS 16, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65628] £850.00
Cha,,s Townley fecit 1772.
Scarce mezzotint, 18th century watermark. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾"). Trimmed into plate.
Half length portrait in oval of horologist Thomas Mudge (1715-94), wearing a short wig, waistcoat and jacket. Mudge's invention of the lever escapement was the greatest single improvement ever applied to pocket watches.
CS 16, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65628] £850.00
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with very large margins. Margins dusty.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65896] £380.00
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with very large margins. Margins dusty.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65896] £380.00
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65898] £380.00
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins. Foxing.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65898] £380.00
The Reverend Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodnardian Professor of Geology. in the University of Cambridge 1833.
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65899] £380.00
Painted by Thomas Phillips Esqr. R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins.
London Published Novr. 1st. 1833, by Molteno, & Graves, 20, Pall Mall.
Mezzotint proof before title, 435 x 340mm (17 x 13¼"), with large margins.
A three-quarter length portrait of geologist Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), turned slightly to the left. He is dressed in a dark double-breasted suit, a dark cravat, and an academic gown. In his right hand, he holds a scroll, while his left hand rests on a fossil placed on a table to the right. A map hangs on the wall behind him.
Whitman 1904: 141. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65899] £380.00
Thomas Sydenham.
Maria Beale pinxit. A. Blooteling Sculp.
[n.d. c.1676.]
Engraving sheet, 155 x 105mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed to plate.
Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) was an English physician. During the English Civil War he fought for Parliament, and resumed his medical studies afterwards at Oxford, where he became the undisputed master of the English medical world and was known was "The English Hippocrates". Mary Beale (née Cradock) (1633–99) was a pioneering English portrait painter and one of the few professional female artists in 17th-century London. From the early 1670s to the 1690s, she supported her family financially through her art. Beale was also a writer, known for Discourse on Friendship (1666), offering a scholarly female perspective, and for her 1663 manuscript Observations, the earliest known English painting manual by a woman. Her work was praised by contemporaries like Sir William Sanderson and Sir Peter Lely, and she was recognized posthumously among the notable artists of her time.
W: 2863-1. NPG: D30044.
[Ref: 65957] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
Maria Beale pinxit. A. Blooteling Sculp.
[n.d. c.1676.]
Engraving sheet, 155 x 105mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed to plate.
Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) was an English physician. During the English Civil War he fought for Parliament, and resumed his medical studies afterwards at Oxford, where he became the undisputed master of the English medical world and was known was "The English Hippocrates". Mary Beale (née Cradock) (1633–99) was a pioneering English portrait painter and one of the few professional female artists in 17th-century London. From the early 1670s to the 1690s, she supported her family financially through her art. Beale was also a writer, known for Discourse on Friendship (1666), offering a scholarly female perspective, and for her 1663 manuscript Observations, the earliest known English painting manual by a woman. Her work was praised by contemporaries like Sir William Sanderson and Sir Peter Lely, and she was recognized posthumously among the notable artists of her time.
W: 2863-1. NPG: D30044.
[Ref: 65957] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)
Pelham Warren. MD: F.R.S.
Painted & Engraved by John Linnell, 1835.
London Published Novr. 10, 1836 by J.Linnell Porchester Terrace Bayswater.
Fine mezzotint. 485 x 370mm (19 x 14½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Pelham Warren (1778–1835), English physician. He started a medical practice in London immediately after he had taken his first degree in medicine, and on 6 April 1803 was elected physician to St. George's Hospital, a post which he resigned in April 1816. His patients included Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne and George William Lefevre. John Linnell (1792 - 1882) was one of the most highly regarded and successful artists of his day and formed an impressive network of connections through being very versatile and able to work in a number of mediums. He was William Blake's last patron and his daughter, Hannah, married Samuel Palmer.
W 3115. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65886] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted & Engraved by John Linnell, 1835.
London Published Novr. 10, 1836 by J.Linnell Porchester Terrace Bayswater.
Fine mezzotint. 485 x 370mm (19 x 14½"), with large margins.
Portrait of Pelham Warren (1778–1835), English physician. He started a medical practice in London immediately after he had taken his first degree in medicine, and on 6 April 1803 was elected physician to St. George's Hospital, a post which he resigned in April 1816. His patients included Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne and George William Lefevre. John Linnell (1792 - 1882) was one of the most highly regarded and successful artists of his day and formed an impressive network of connections through being very versatile and able to work in a number of mediums. He was William Blake's last patron and his daughter, Hannah, married Samuel Palmer.
W 3115. Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65886] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Pelham Warren.] [MD: F.R.S.]
[Painted & Engraved by John Linnell, 1835.]
[London Published Novr. 10, 1836 by J.Linnell Porchester Terrace Bayswater.]
Mezzotint, unfinished proof, 485 x 370mm (19 x 14½"), large margins.
Portrait of Pelham Warren (1778–1835), English physician. He started a medical practice in London immediately after he had taken his first degree in medicine, and on 6 April 1803 was elected physician to St. George's Hospital, a post which he resigned in April 1816. His patients included Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne and George William Lefevre. John Linnell (1792 - 1882) was one of the most highly regarded and successful artists of his day and formed an impressive network of connections through being very versatile and able to work in a number of mediums. He was William Blake's last patron and his daughter, Hannah, married Samuel Palmer.
W 3115.
[Ref: 65887] £350.00
[Painted & Engraved by John Linnell, 1835.]
[London Published Novr. 10, 1836 by J.Linnell Porchester Terrace Bayswater.]
Mezzotint, unfinished proof, 485 x 370mm (19 x 14½"), large margins.
Portrait of Pelham Warren (1778–1835), English physician. He started a medical practice in London immediately after he had taken his first degree in medicine, and on 6 April 1803 was elected physician to St. George's Hospital, a post which he resigned in April 1816. His patients included Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne and George William Lefevre. John Linnell (1792 - 1882) was one of the most highly regarded and successful artists of his day and formed an impressive network of connections through being very versatile and able to work in a number of mediums. He was William Blake's last patron and his daughter, Hannah, married Samuel Palmer.
W 3115.
[Ref: 65887] £350.00